Cherokee culture gave deep meaning and practical use to animals, crafts, games, and sacred imagery. Turkeys provided feathers for arrows, fans, and cloaks, food, and imagery for shell gorgets worn by prominent people. Booger masks represented enemies, invaders, foreigners, and outsiders, and after the arrival of white men some masks took on features associated with those new enemies. Stickball, called A-ne-jo-di or “small brother of war,” was a rough team game used in earlier times to settle serious disputes. Buffalo were honored as providers for the people and remained celebrated in songs and dances even after they disappeared from Eastern Cherokee territory in the late seventeen hundreds. Women wearing turtle-shell leg rattles, or shell shakers, added sound to dances, while the rabbit appeared as a messenger, dance leader, trickster, and figure of myth. Eagles were admired for sight and flight, and their feathers, skins, and talons were prized for ceremonial use. Cherokee baskets, made mainly by women from rivercane and later also from honeysuckle with white oak or maple, served daily, ceremonial, trade, and later decorative purposes, while pottery developed over millennia from early coastal traditions into distinctive Cherokee Qualla phase ceramics shaped by hand, decorated by incision, stamping, and impressions, and fired into many colors. Gorgets of shell or copper served as ornaments, funerary objects, and passports through hostile territories, and one spider design reflects the belief that the water spider brought the first fire to humans. Petroglyphs along the Hiwassee River may mark dangerous passageways into the Underworld and depict supernatural beings, water panthers, and spirals with layered meanings. Projectile points, axes, celts, chunkey stones, atlatl weights, and pipes reflect long traditions of hunting, woodworking, games, divination, and ceremony. Cherokee society was organized through seven matrilineal clans, each with distinct responsibilities, under councils of grandmothers who made important decisions and judged violations of tribal laws.